Surname Puž in modern Croatia

Puž families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Opatija , barely Italians (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Koprivnica. In Zaluki in Opatija area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Puž.

Prevalence

About 380 people with faimily name Puž live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 580 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 47 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (55), Opatija (35), Rijeka (25), Zagreb (25), and in Matulji in Opatija area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (10), the United States (3), Germany (2), Argentina (1), France (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Puž (including: Puz , Puzzo , Puzzi , Puzz , Puzza , Puez and Puzh ) is present in 42 countries worldwide. The family name "Puz " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in Argentina , and some 100 people in France. "Puzh " is used by few people in the United States. "Puez " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Goran Puž, Igor Puž, Teo Puž, Ladislav Puž, Damir Puž, Valentina Puž, Loredana Puž, Leo Puž, Miroslav Puž, Josip Puž, Eugen Puž, Vladimir Puž, Arsen Puž, Mihaela Puž, Vesna Puž, Elvis Puž, Darko Puž, Valter Puž, Ivan Puž

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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